| A recent study shows that, by stimulating the immune system, dextrose injections can greatly help those suffering from chronic neck pain.
Sugar Injections Resolve Chronic Neck Pain
Researchers writing in
Practical Pain Management (October 2007) say that simple
dextrose (sugar) injections improved pain symptoms and
quality of life in chronic neck pain sufferers. The researchers studied 98 patients who had suffered with
chronic neck pain for a near average of five years and who
during that time had visited with an average of three
physicians/pain specialists without satisfactory resolving their pain.
Physicians then performed Prolotherapy, a series of
injections of a dextrose solution into the neck. In
Prolotherapy dextrose is used as an irritant to stimulate
the immune system to rebuild and repair damaged ligaments,
tendons, and other connective tissue that hold the muscles
and bones of the neck in place.
Lead researcher and physician, Ross Hauser, M.D., writes,
"The results of this study showed that patients had a
statistically significant decline in their level of pain,
stiffness and crunching sensation with Prolotherapy. This
included clients who were told by their M.D.(s) that there
were no other treatment options or that surgery was their
only answer for their chronic pain. More than 83% of
patients showed improvements in walking ability, exercise
ability, anxiety, depression and overall disability with
Prolotherapy. Ninety percent of patients who were on
medications at the start of Prolotherapy were able to cut
their pain medication usage by 50% or more. Additional pain
management care was able to be lessened by 50% or more in
75% of cases with Prolotherapy. Ninety-eight percent of
patients stated their pain was better with Prolotherapy.
Ninety-seven percent of patients said Prolotherapy changed
their life for the better."
Further studies on Prolotherapy are currently being
performed by many groups.
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